You are simply wrong in saying that the PC (and/or geek) market won't have any use for it.
Each good geek keeps the original distribution archives of his favorite software. These are often several GBs large (warez, games). So that when he reinstalls or changes the OS, he can quickly deploy his favorite programs instead of hunting them down all over the internet.
A 50GB BD-RW will be an ideal storage medium for these packages. It's much thinner than a hard disk and you don't need to load files from it every day.
Who defines what a "major" OS is? Where are any trustworthy verifiable numbers of real OS X users?
> just bummed that this particular piece of OSS brands itself as "cross-platform"
I didn't see the term "cross-platform" mentioned anywhere on their site. Anyway, their software actually is cross-platform, because it runs on more than one platform. The fact that it does not run on OS X and AmigaOS does not make it non-crossplatform.
"Tens" always means whole tens. Not tenths. 20 tens are already hundreds (i.e. we would say "hundreds of millions"). To be very precise, "tens of millions" means 20 to 190 millions.
The only relevant measurement that matters is the percentage of visitors using Firefox at big sites like google.com. Someone should ask Google to reveal their stats about browser usage among their visitors. Number of downloads is indeed misleading (I downloaded Firefox but don't use it).
I stopped wearing glasses a few years back and tried some of the eye exercises (as a friend recommended)
I (and *many* others too I'm sure) would be really grateful to you if you could post more details about these excercises (or at least a link). Thanks!:)
I took an ergonomics course (ergonomics is science that basically deals with workplace vs. health issues) during my final year at uni. We've been told that it is not about lights at all.
The problem is that if the eye is focused at one particular distance (computer screen) for too long periods of time (daily), the eye lens basically partially loses the ability to properly focus on distant objects (a distance of say 20 meters or more). This is allegedly irreversible.
I have this problem too. My eyes were always excellent. Now I'm 29 and after 12 years of working with computers, I can't properly focus distant objects.
Actually, the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD battle is totally different from the VHS/Betamax battle, because:
1) JVC did not hog the VHS standard that they invented (just like IBM did not hog PC). So manafacturers could just build their own VHS machines. This was not the case with Betamax.
2) Betamax was vastly superiour to VHS (in terms of screen resolution and other important aspects).
> I wish there were more programmers that actually know how to do cross-platform stu
I'm not sure what your trying to suggest by that. However, they *just started* to port TrueCrypt to Linux. The full feature set that the Windows version has will be ported. Volume creation and GUI are on their TO DO list. http://www.truecrypt.org/future.php Maybe check the facts before posting things like this.
But I think the real flaw in RSS is the very concept it implements, the "push technology". People don't like information to be pushed at them.
That's simply not true. Every day people turn on their TVs and watch the news (i.e. news being pushed at them). It's the people who decide when and if to receive the news.
However, the question is whether the website and docs were written by the developers and designers of TrueCrypt or by their webmaster and docs maintainers.
They have a forum admin, forum moderators, etc, and the project is quite big so I doubt that the software devs/designers maintain the website and docs themselves.
Slashdot Mirror
By "figures" I mean numbers (statistics), not "persons".
While Opera hasn't had the same success as Firefox on the desktop
I'd like to see some trustworthy figures backing up this claim.
You are simply wrong in saying that the PC (and/or geek) market won't have any use for it.
Each good geek keeps the original distribution archives of his favorite software. These are often several GBs large (warez, games). So that when he reinstalls or changes the OS, he can quickly deploy his favorite programs instead of hunting them down all over the internet.
A 50GB BD-RW will be an ideal storage medium for these packages. It's much thinner than a hard disk and you don't need to load files from it every day.
> it should run on the major current OSes
Who defines what a "major" OS is? Where are any trustworthy verifiable numbers of real OS X users?
> just bummed that this particular piece of OSS brands itself as "cross-platform"
I didn't see the term "cross-platform" mentioned anywhere on their site. Anyway, their software actually is cross-platform, because it runs on more than one platform. The fact that it does not run on OS X and AmigaOS does not make it non-crossplatform.
> Windows + Linux != cross-platform
Judging from your equation, it would have to run on Atari TOS, CP/M and MS-DOS and all other available platforms to deserve the cross-platform status?
It seems you finally got it.
> "tens" means ten times some other number.
First, it is in plural so it is not "ten times". It is "tens". That means 2..19 time 10 times million.
"Tens" always means whole tens. Not tenths. 20 tens are already hundreds (i.e. we would say "hundreds of millions"). To be very precise, "tens of millions" means 20 to 190 millions.
"Tens" means "tens" (10's). Not "tenths" (1/10's).
The Mozilla head, Mitchell Baker, said: "the search feature in Firefox [...] generates revenue in the tens of millions of dollars"
That means $10-$99 millions.
The only relevant measurement that matters is the percentage of visitors using Firefox at big sites like google.com. Someone should ask Google to reveal their stats about browser usage among their visitors. Number of downloads is indeed misleading (I downloaded Firefox but don't use it).
Mach (the OS X kernel) is not Unix (nor a Linux-derived kernel).
I stopped wearing glasses a few years back and tried some of the eye exercises (as a friend recommended)
:)
I (and *many* others too I'm sure) would be really grateful to you if you could post more details about these excercises (or at least a link). Thanks!
I took an ergonomics course (ergonomics is science that basically deals with workplace vs. health issues) during my final year at uni. We've been told that it is not about lights at all.
The problem is that if the eye is focused at one particular distance (computer screen) for too long periods of time (daily), the eye lens basically partially loses the ability to properly focus on distant objects (a distance of say 20 meters or more). This is allegedly irreversible.
I have this problem too. My eyes were always excellent. Now I'm 29 and after 12 years of working with computers, I can't properly focus distant objects.
similar to the Betamax/VHS video tape battle
Actually, the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD battle is totally different from the VHS/Betamax battle, because:
1) JVC did not hog the VHS standard that they invented (just like IBM did not hog PC). So manafacturers could just build their own VHS machines. This was not the case with Betamax.
2) Betamax was vastly superiour to VHS (in terms of screen resolution and other important aspects).
> I wish there were more programmers that actually know how to do cross-platform stu
I'm not sure what your trying to suggest by that. However, they *just started* to port TrueCrypt to Linux. The full feature set that the Windows version has will be ported. Volume creation and GUI are on their TO DO list. http://www.truecrypt.org/future.php Maybe check the facts before posting things like this.
But I think the real flaw in RSS is the very concept it implements, the "push technology". People don't like information to be pushed at them.
That's simply not true. Every day people turn on their TVs and watch the news (i.e. news being pushed at them). It's the people who decide when and if to receive the news.
PS - I don't use RSS but I do watch news on TV.
At least I'll take a closer look on the mode being used. It is still deterministic and provides no integrity
The new mode was recommended to them by several experts on sci.crypt (one of the experts was David Wagner, codesigner of Twofish).
EFS is file encryption (which uses temp files). It is not on-the-fly disk encryption. There's a significant difference between those two concepts.
That problem was fixed one month ago.
This problem was fixed a month ago.
http://www.truecrypt.org/history.php
> PGP lets you do this on various platforms
You say "various" but I know only of two. (Win and Mac). Name the others please.
You forgot to write a very important thing:
TrueCrypt is open source and free (as in freedom and beer).
Not open source though (AFAIK). Closed source security = no real security.
However, the question is whether the website and docs were written by the developers and designers of TrueCrypt or by their webmaster and docs maintainers.
They have a forum admin, forum moderators, etc, and the project is quite big so I doubt that the software devs/designers maintain the website and docs themselves.